Governing Board

The CNCF Governing Board (GB) will be responsible for marketing and other business oversight and budget decisions for the CNCF. The GB does not make technical decisions for the CNCF, other than working with the TOC to set the overall scope for the CNCF. The GB currently consists of these representatives:

Alexis Richardson

Weaveworks (TOC Chair)

Alexis is the co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks. He is also the chairman of the TOC for CNCF, and the co-founder of the Coed:Code meetups.

Alexis RichardsonWeaveworks (TOC Chair)

Alexis is the co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks. He is also the chairman of the TOC for CNCF, and the co-founder of the Coed:Code meetups. Previously he was at Pivotal, as head of products for Spring, RabbitMQ, Redis, Apache Tomcat and vFabric. Alexis was responsible for resetting the product direction of Spring and transitioning the vFabric business from VMware. Alexis co-founded RabbitMQ, and was CEO of the Rabbit company acquired by VMware in 2010, where he worked on numerous cloud platforms. Rumours persist that he co-founded several other software companies including Cohesive Networks, after a career as a prop trader in fixed income derivatives, and a misspent youth studying and teaching mathematical logic.

Anni Lai

Huawei

Anni leads the Operations of Huawei’s Cloud Open Source Development Team responsible for OpenStack, Containers, Open Storage, AI/Deep Learning, and other Cloud-related open source projects.

Anni LaiHuawei

Anni leads the Operations of Huawei’s Cloud Open Source Development Team responsible for OpenStack, Containers, Open Storage, AI/Deep Learning, and other Cloud-related open source projects. Anni currently sits on both OpenStack and CNCF Boards. In addition, Anni is part of Huawei’s IT/Cloud strategy and business development team.

Prior to Huawei, Anni worked at companies such as Oracle, Salesforce.com, Savvis (acquired by Centurylink), Fast Search and Transfer (acquired by Microsoft), and Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle) in the areas of product mgt/marketing, technology evangelism/developer relations, partner strategy/recruitment/mgt, and enterprise business development & consulting.

For the last 6+ years, while working for Huawei, Anni has traveled to 30+ countries, 5 continents visiting telco and enterprise customers in EMEA, APAC, and North & South America to discuss their ICT, Cloud, Datacenter transformation and strategy, and presented the latest cloud technology and business trends at various industry conferences.

Anni holds MS & BA degrees in Computer Science and is currently based in Silicon Valley, USA. Anni also has completed NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors) Director Professionalism Training and is currently a member of NACD SF Chapter.

Aparna Sinha

Google

Aparna leads the product team at Google for Kubernetes OSS and Kubernetes Engine.

Aparna SinhaGoogle

Aparna leads the product team at Google for Kubernetes OSS and Kubernetes Engine. She started and co-leads the Product Management SIG to maintain an open backlog for the Kubernetes project on Github. She has worked in enterprise software for 15+ years, and was formerly Director of Product at NetApp. Aparna holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and has co-authored several technical papers during her research.

Arun Gupta

Amazon Web Services

Arun GuptaAmazon Web Services

Arun Gupta is a Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services. He is responsible for the CNCF strategy within AWS, and participates at CNCF Board and technical meetings actively. He particularly enjoys AMA on Containers and Serverless. He has built and led developer communities for several years at Sun, Oracle, Red Hat and Couchbase. He has extensive speaking experience in 40+ countries on myriad topics. Gupta also founded the Devoxx4Kids chapter in the US and continues to promote technology education among children. A prolific blogger, author of several books, an avid runner, a globe trotter, a Docker Captain, a Java Champion, a JUG leader, he is easily accessible at @arungupta on twitter.

Ben Hindman

Mesosphere

Ben is one of the creators of Apache Mesos, a platform for building and running resource-efficient distributed systems at scale.

Ben Hindman Mesosphere

Ben is one of the creators of Apache Mesos, a platform for building and running resource-efficient distributed systems at scale. Ben started working on Mesos as a PhD student at Berkeley before he brought it to Twitter where it runs on thousands of machines. An academic at heart, his research in programming languages and distributed systems has been published in leading academic conferences.

Bjoern Goerke

SAP

Bjoern GoerkeSAP

Björn heads the SAP Product & Innovation Technology Development unit, reporting to the Executive Board of SAP. He drives innovation with a global team of more than 2,500 employees working with lean and agile software development methodologies in SAP Labs in Germany, India, Bulgaria, United States, Israel, and additional countries.

Since joining SAP in 1995, Björn has held several managerial and executive positions in technology development, both in Germany and the United States. Among these roles, Björn headed the Cloud and Infrastructure Delivery unit at SAP. In this function, Björn was also SAP’s chief information officer, serving to spearhead how business can benefit from SAP innovations delivered via the cloud. Prior to this, Björn headed research and development within the Technology & Innovation Platform core group at SAP.

Brandon Philips

Red Hat (Developer Seat)

Brandon is a member of Red Hat's technical staff and was CoreOS's CTO. Since 2013 he has helped shape the container and Kubernetes ecosystems.

Chris Wright

Red Hat

Chris WrightRed Hat

Chris is the Vice President and Chief Technologist at Red Hat. During his nearly 20 years as a software engineer he has worked in the telecom industry on high availability and distributed systems and in the Linux industry on security and virtualization. He has been a Linux developer for over a decade, most of that time spent deep in the Linux kernel working on security and virtualization. He is intrigued by the challenges that cloud computing brings to virtualization and networking, and is now focused on the cloud, KVM, network virtualization, and virtualizing network functions. He lives in sunny Portland, OR where he is happily hacking on OpenDaylight, Open vSwitch, and OpenStack.

Craig McLuckie

Heptio

Craig is the founder and CEO of Heptio, a startup focused on making Kubernetes accessible to enterprises living in a multi-cloud world.

Craig McLuckieHeptio

Craig is the founder and CEO of Heptio, a startup focused on making Kubernetes accessible to enterprises living in a multi-cloud world. Prior to starting Heptio, Craig was a product manager at Google where he founded the Kubernetes project and worked with the industry to create the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. He was also responsible for initiating and delivering several commercial cloud computing products including Google Compute Engine, Google Container Engine and Google Deployment Manager. Prior to Google Craig work on enterprise technologies at Microsoft for almost a decade.

Gabe Monroy

Microsoft Azure

Gabe is a software entrepreneur and systems architect with 20 years experience designing, building, and operating mission-critical IT infrastructure.

Gabe MonroyMicrosoft Azure

Gabe is a software entrepreneur and systems architect with 20 years experience designing, building, and operating mission-critical IT infrastructure.

Gabe is the founder of Deis, which was acquired by Microsoft in April 2017. As an early contributor to Docker and CoreOS, Gabe has deep experience pushing the boundaries of early-stage technology and speaks frequently at industry events on Docker, Kubernetes, and distributed systems. Gabe co-founded OpDemand which was acquired by Engine Yard in 2015. Prior to OpDemand, Gabe studied computer science at Tufts University and worked as a lead architect for Temboo, Intuit, and as a consultant for software companies in New York City.

Haifeng Liu

JD.com

Haifeng has always had a passion for building complex systems. He is the Chief Architect of JD.com, China’s largest retailer and the world’s third largest internet company by revenue.

Haifeng LiuJD.com

Haifeng has always had a passion for building complex systems. He is the Chief Architect of JD.com, China’s largest retailer and the world’s third largest internet company by revenue. He is also Vice President of JD’s Technical Infrastructure department. Haifeng joined JD in 2013 and is responsible for the construction and optimization of the infrastructure that powers all facets of the company’s business. In his time at JD, he has led the company to independently develop several critical
infrastructure services, which taken together form JD’s highly efficient infrastructure system – the Archimedes platform. The platform covers container cluster management, databases & storage systems, microservices, middleware, product image services & machine learning, cross-region multi-datacenter scalability for e-commerce, and intelligent operations.

A veteran in the space, Haifeng previously held leadership roles at Baidu and Yahoo, focused on the design, development and implementation of large-scale distributed systems. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the subject, all from the University of Science & Technology of China.

Hiroyuki Kamezawa

Fujitsu

Hiroyuki runs the open source development team for the Cloud Native Computing Platform at Fujitsu, including Kubernetes, OCI, and others.

Hiroyuki KamezawaFujitsu

Hiroyuki runs the open source development team for the Cloud Native Computing Platform at Fujitsu, including Kubernetes, OCI, and others. He has 10+ years of experience in platform development and support for enterprise customers in Japan. He had been working as a Linux kernel developer and making contributions for memory management and initial implementation of cgroup, a Linux kernel features for containers. Now, he is focusing on cloud-native platforms based on Kubernetes and OCI. He engages customers, partners, and open source communities to share cloud-native technologies vision of Fujitsu.

Imad Sousou

Intel

Imad is vice president in the Software and Services Group and general manager of the Open Source Technology Center at Intel Corp.

Imad SousouIntel

Imad is vice president in the Software and Services Group and general manager of the Open Source Technology Center at Intel Corp. He established the center in 2003 and is responsible for driving Intel’s efforts in open source software and architecture across technologies and market segments, including enterprise and carrier-grade Linux and related technologies, virtualization technologies, embedded market segments, and client Linux programs and related technologies.

Imad joined Intel in 1994 as a senior software engineer. Before moving into his current role, he served as director of telecom software programs in the Intel Communications Group and as director of client software engineering in the Home Products Group.

Prior to joining Intel, Imad was a software engineer at Central Point Software working on system utilities for the Apple Mac OS.

Imad holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from Portland State University.

Jon Mittelhauser

Oracle

Jon runs engineering for the Container Native Platform team at Oracle (which includes all of Oracle’s Kubernetes offerings).

Jon MittelhauserOracle

Jon runs engineering for the Container Native Platform team at Oracle (which includes all of Oracle’s Kubernetes offerings). Jon is considered one of the founding fathers of the World Wide Web with more than 20 years of open source and engineering management experience. He wrote the first widely used Web browser (NCSA Mosaic for Windows) as part of his Master’s thesis at the University of Illinois and was a founding engineer of Netscape Communications. More recently he ran engineering for Nebula, Inc., was on the OpenStack foundation board and was CEO of CloudBolt Software.

Junjie Cai

Alibaba Cloud

Junjie (Jack) is the Chief Architect of the Elastic Compute Service at Alibaba Cloud.

Junjie CaiAlibaba Cloud

Junjie (Jack) is the Chief Architect of the Elastic Compute Service at Alibaba Cloud. He has extensive experience with Cloud Computing across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. His current focus is to make the IaaS controller more intelligent for better compute service availability, performance, and cost-efficiency. Previouslyhe led a SaaS platform initiative in Huawei, and served as the Application Runtime architect in IBM Bluemix Cloud platform, building an application-centric experience in the Cloud. Before his Cloud journey, Jack was deeply involved in the Java core platform technologies and the related open source community. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Kit Merker

JFrog

Kit heads business development for JFrog, creating technology-driven collaborations with DevOps and Cloud Native partners.

Kit MerkerJFrog

Kit heads business development for JFrog, creating technology-driven collaborations with DevOps and Cloud Native partners.

In his 18+ years of experience in large-scale software development projects, he has worked in a variety of roles from coding to engineering manager, evangelism to product management. Prior to JFrog, Kit worked as a product manager for Kubernetes and related container initiatives for Google Cloud. Before that he spent 10 years at Microsoft, where he worked on several products – Windows, Azure, Office 365, & Bing.

Kit lives in Redmond, Washington and enjoys playing piano whenever he finds time.

Michelle Noorali

Microsoft (Developer Seat)

Michelle is a Sr. Software Engineer on the Azure Containers team and a core maintainer of the Kubernetes Helm project.

Michelle NooraliMicrosoft (Developer Seat)

Michelle is a Sr. Software Engineer on the Azure Containers team and a core maintainer of the Kubernetes Helm project. Michelle serves on the Kubernetes Steering Committee, and co-founded and co-leads the special interest group in Kubernetes that focuses on running and managing workloads in Kubernetes (SIG-Apps). She is also an engineer on open source projects under the Azure umbrella like Draft and Brigade. Michelle holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Georgia.

Patrick Chanezon

Docker

Patrick is a member of the technical staff at Docker Inc. He helps to build Docker, an open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins.

Patrick ChanezonDocker

Patrick is a member of the technical staff at Docker Inc. He helps to build Docker, an open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins.

From 2013 to 2015, he led the Enterprise Evangelism efforts in Microsoft Developer Experience team, and helped create the Strategic Engagement team.

From 2011 to 2012, he built out the developer relations team at VMware, for Spring and Cloud Foundry. Previously, he worked at Google from 2005 to 2011, where he managed the Cloud and Tools Developer Relations team in San Francisco. Previously he has been a Developer Advocate, building and growing developer ecosystems for HTML5, OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API. Previously he spent 5 years at Sun Microsystems as a software architect working on Sun Portal Server, blogs and syndication feeds, and received the CEO award for helping launch blogs.sun.com. Previously he spent 5 years at AOL and Netscape where he managed the MyNetscape Portal, and 2 years at Accenture as a Lotus Notes guru. He co-created the ROME open source project, and the OSSGTP group in France.

Apart from programming and reading books, his main interest in life is spending time with his wife and 3 kids.

Patrick received a M.S. in computer science from Ecole Centrale de Lyon where he graduated in 1993.

Scott Yara

Pivotal

Scott YaraPivotal

Scott is Pivotal’s Senior Vice President, Products.

Scott co-founded Greenplum and previously served as Senior Vice President of EMC’s Greenplum Division. He’s credited with having a deep knowledge of product development and go-to-market—spanning engineering, product management, and marketing.

Prior to Greenplum, Scott served as Vice President at Digital Island, a publicly-traded Internet infrastructure services company, which was acquired by Cable & Wireless in 2001. Prior to Digital Island, Scott served as Vice President at Sandpiper Networks, an Internet content delivery services company. During his tenure at Sandpiper, Scott helped create the industry’s first content delivery network (CDN)—a globally distributed computing infrastructure comprised of several thousand servers and used by many of the industry’s largest Internet services such as Microsoft and Disney.

Shannon Williams

Rancher

Shannon is a co-founder at Rancher Labs, a company focused on building open source software for operating containers in production.

Shannon WilliamsRancher

Shannon is a co-founder at Rancher Labs, a company focused on building open source software for operating containers in production. Shannon has spent his career at technology start-ups, working with visionary customers to embrace next generation technologies like cloud computing, identity management, and security.

Prior to starting Rancher, Shannon was a founder and VP of Sales at Cloud.com, a pioneer in Cloud Computing. In 2011 Cloud.com was acquired by Citrix Systems, after which he spent three years as Vice President of Market Development for Citrix’s cloud platforms business unit. Over six years working in Cloud Computing, Shannon lead teams that built hundreds of computing clouds, including many of the world’s largest at companies such as BT, AutoDesk, Disney, Datapipe, Apple, Zynga, and KT.

Shannon is a frequent speaker, and has spoken around the world about the impact of open source software, cloud computing, information security and entrepreneurship.

Sinclair Schuller

Apprenda

Sinclair SchullerApprenda

Sinclair is the CEO of Apprenda. He serves on multiple venture networks and speaks nationally on the topics of enterprise IT efficiency, cloud computing and next generation enterprise architectures. Before Apprenda, Sinclair held positions at Morgan Stanley, Eden Communications, and consulted for the State University of New York’s (SUNY) vast IT systems. Sinclair holds dual Bachelor of Science degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Sukwoo Kang

Samsung SDS

Sukwoo is the Senior Vice President of Samsung SDS's Cloud Business Unit.

Sukwoo KangSamsung SDS

Sukwoo is the Senior Vice President of Samsung SDS’s Cloud Business Unit.

He has extensive experience in cloud platform and infrastructure development through his works at SAMSUNG SDS, IBM, and EMC. Prior to joining Samsung SDS, he was part of IBM’s Cloud Infrastructure Team, where he had multi-faceted roles such as team lead, client technical advisor, and architect. He was also a researcher in large-scale distributed systems as part of IBM Research. He also worked as a member of EMC’s Cloud Infrastructure Group, where he was one of the founding members of Atmos, a compute and storage cloud software solution.

Thomas Di Giacomo

SUSE

As Chief Technology Officer, Thomas drives the rapid innovation and growth of SUSE’s expanding portfolio from the enterprise Linux operating system to software-defined solutions...

Thomas Di GiacomoSUSE

As Chief Technology Officer, Thomas drives the rapid innovation and growth of SUSE’s expanding portfolio from the enterprise Linux operating system to software-defined solutions such as the OpenStack cloud infrastructure, Ceph-based storage, software-defined networking solutions as well as solutions for developers such as Kubernetes containers and Cloud Foundry platform as a service. He engages customers, partners, and open source communities to share and define SUSE’s technological vision.

Thomas has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, serving in various global leadership roles in engineering and product innovation, with expertise in open source platforms, development, and support of global information systems and technologies applied to various industries such as telecommunication, hospitality, and healthcare.

Thomas holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Geneva where he was a senior software developer & researcher involved in both academic work and joint corporate projects with international leading enterprises.

Todd Moore

IBM (Chair of Governing Board)

As VP Open Technology for IBM, Todd leads the global team working to develop open communities that fuel both innovation and new business models.

Todd MooreIBM (Chair of Governing Board)

As VP Open Technology for IBM, Todd leads the global team working to develop open communities that fuel both innovation and new business models. Todd can be found engaged with communities and technologies that span Cloud Computing, Mobile, Social Business, and Analytics. He has the pulse of where open innovation is happening around the industry. Todd has a unique background in software and hardware development, architecture, design and product management. He has served in executive roles in both IBM’s Software and Systems. Prior to his current role, Todd worked with IBM Acquisitions to integrate new members of the IBM community. Leading IBM’s WebServices, Security and Restful Services development for WebSphere is also part of his resume. He has extensive experience in mobile and distributed computing systems, with a background spanning embedded devices to large parallel systems. Over his career, Todd and his team of open source developers have gained insight by working with some of the leading Open Source communities such as the Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation, eClipse, OSGi, Cloud Foundry, Docker, JQuery, Node.js and more. He currently serves as Board of Directors member in the OpenStack Foundation. He holds a Masters Degree in the Management of Technology from the MIT Sloan School of Business, and a BS EE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Vijoy Pandey

Cisco

Vijoy is the VP / CTO of Cloud Platforms and Software at Cisco. He is responsible for helping define Cisco’s strategy and products in cloud software, systems, and infrastructure in a multi-cloud world.

Vijoy PandeyCisco

Vijoy is the VP / CTO of Cloud Platforms and Software at Cisco. He is responsible for helping define Cisco’s strategy and products in cloud software, systems, and infrastructure in a multi-cloud world.

Vijoy was previously at Google where he has held various leadership roles in the Google Cloud and Technical Infrastructure groups. He led the development of software and systems for intent-driven zero-touch automation, diagnostic telemetry, data analytics and ML/AI and application-level awareness in the infrastructure. He also led architecture, engineering and operations of Google’s global data center networking footprint, Cloud networking, and their two global WAN networks.

Prior to Google, Vijoy served in numerous senior leadership capacities including CTO of Networking at IBM Cloud and IBM Software groups; CTO of a startup, Blade Network Technologies; and has led global Engineering teams for numerous infrastructure companies.

He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and holds over 60 patents in distributed systems & networking.